ART OF EUROPE Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my ...

ART OF EUROPE Stevie Smith - Away, Melancholy Away, melancholy, Away with it, let it go. Are not the trees green, The earth as green Does not the wind blow, Fire leap and the rivers flow Away melancholy. The ant is busy He carrieth his meat, All things hurry To be eaten or eat. Away, melancholy. Man, too, hurries, Eats, couples, buries, He is an animal also With a hey ho melancholy, Away with ...

Stevie Smith (1902-1971) LINKS No links at this time. BIOGRAPHY Stevie Smith (1902-1971). Born Florence Margaret Smith in Hull, England, Stevie Smith was a secretary at Newnes Publishing Company in London from 1923 to 1953, and occasionally worked as a writer and broadcaster for the BBC. Though she began publishing verse, which she often illustrated herself, in the 1930s, Smith did not reach a ...

Stevie Smith Biography Stevie Smith was born Florence Margaret Smith in 1903 in Hull, Yorkshire. She moved with her mother and sister to Palmer's Green, where they lived with her aunt. Stevie spent the rest of her life with her aunt, and worked as a private secretary. Though she had a series of boyfriends, she never married. Stevie wrote four novels, the first of which, A Novel on Yellow Paper, ...